Poll: Who is the FCIAC boys basketball MVP?

With the regular season 80 percent over, it is not too early to ask an interesting question: who has been the most valuable boys basketball player in the FCIAC this season?

For me, judging an MVP comes down to one specific criterion: which team would be affected most adversely if you removed that player? Or, from the glass-half-full school, which player most positively impacts his team.

With that, my list comes down to five players: Schadrac Casimir of Trinity Catholic, Quincy McKnight of St. Joseph, Kurt Steidl of Ridgefield, Peter Rankowitz of Staples and Jeremiah Livingston of Westhill.

Casimir is the FCIAC’s leading scorer. McKnight is arguably the most versatile player. Stiedl and Rankowitz are players most teams feel, if shut down, give them a great chance at victory. And though Westhill is more of an ensemble, it is not tied for the top seed without the play of Livingston.

As for the other top teams — Bridgeport Central, Norwalk and Wilton — they rely more on collective efforts and are more likely to have a different player lead the way on a given night.

So which player do you think is the MVP? We will give you until noon on Friday to vote. And if you think my list of five is incomplete, vote in the “Other” category and write in a comment with who and why.

So lets see who the readers think is the boys basketball MVP so far this season.

45 Responses

Casimir for sure and my kid goes to sj. McKnight has the most talent and athleticism but Shad is just a great player. Quincy also has a hard time controlling his emotions which has caused SJ a lot of issues this year Including the game tonight though that black haired ref is a complete joke and shouldn’t be retting old man Rec games. He totally screwed SJ . That said , Quincy can’t put himself in that spot. Just watch Shad play. He is unflappable. Steidl is # 3 for a couple reasons. Ridge field just isn’t as good as SJ or TC being the biggest reason. Steidl is so sound and does everything well but I don’t think he dominates like shad or Quincy. He also has some help as Lacy can play and in fact he is better than SJ second best player who is Pellitier. Ancrum is just so nice he has to be top 5 . I would say Shad has the best complements in wheeler and Fraser . Fraser is dynamic. I would say SJ or central is the deepest

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simply doesnt make sense to have steidl at the bottom. If this is about mvp it has to be casimir because of the way they dominated ridgefield. But steidl should have the 2 spot this poll is a joke having him last…

I’ve now seen all these players play this year. Steidl is the only one who dominated a game. Casimir struggled last night, as noted by two commenters already, because of the man to man defense. He scored when they went to a zone. Casimir is a great ballplayer. The TC trio all work well together, very disciplined and play team ball. Hard to pick one over the other two as their contributions are linked. Rankowitz can hit an open 3 but is not the defender or ball handler of others. He plays hard. Quincy has the most talent but clearly gave up early in the game vs Wilton. Kane and Livingston are outstanding sophomores but not top 5 FCIAC players yet. Dear would not be close to top 5 in my view. Not over Wilton’s Wilbur and Houska, Staples Frusciante and Central’s Ancrum. Those are all better than Dear and I think Dear is a very good player.

Doesn’t Kane lead Norwalk in points, rebounds, assists and blocks? Would he have been the 6th choice? Kind of hard to imagine where Norwalk would be without him. It seems like he gets at least 15, 15, and 5 blocks every night. The other players on this list are all very good but if I had to pick I’d say Casimir, then McKnight, then all the others.

people dont get that tremain frasier and brandon wheeler are two of the states best scorers and rebounders as well. Shadrach has had a great season but everyone here is saying without him trinity wouldn’t be good Take tonight for example. when Shadrach struggled a little in the first tremain and brandon picked him up and that is why Trinity won against Wilton. Not just cause of shadrach but because this Trinity catholic High School basketball team is a forced to be reckoned with and thats how they do it. As a team, not just behind their MVP. WHat would KD be without westbrook or blake griffan without Chris Paul throwing ally opps to themselves?! This team is not just Shadrach but bo he deserves this award.

Not john we can recruit but it is also money and a catholic education. Trinity has a higher graduation percentage then many schools. Just cause we can recruit doesnt mean much! we have 400 kids so clearly you misinterprated my point it was the voting system might be screwed up because some would just vote for thir school player. But not the case here shadrac has a good lead

casmir all the way, mcknight has a cast around him shadrach allo leads his team in assists and is very small. being the leading scorer at 5″8 and a senior is what makes him deservant of this award. I woulnt be suprised if he doesnt win though trinity is a 400 kid school with many non-intersted in this. Staples shouldn’t be winning this at all if it weren’t for school population!

Casimir is arguably the best point gaurd this state has ever seen no one can stay in front of him and he is forced to be the leading scorer and does it with high percentage shots if their giving MVP’s its for him